Assignment: 1
Provide 500 to 600 words for each of the prompts below
Essay Questions:
1. Write about the multitude of nonverbal behaviors as direct visual representations of the fight-or-flight survival response in subjects.
2. Decipher the acronym "HEAL" that generates much information to streamline the decoding procedure of truth from a high probability of deception or lying.
3. Briefly describe the meaning of various signals given by the following body parts that investigators can use to their advantage:
- Head Positions
- Facial Color and Expressions
- The Nose
- The Mouth (lip behaviors)
- The Eyes
- The Arms, Shoulders, and Elbows
- The Hands
- The Legs (knees, feet, sitting postures)
4. Not all of the body language symptoms and verbal cues we have explored are limited to deceptive subjects. These same clusters are observed in reluctant witnesses, victims, sources of information, and informants. Describe acceptance clusters telling the early signs of acceptance (include the phenomenon called "mirroring"). Explain what the interrogator should do when these signals are strong.
Assignment: 2
Provide 500 to 600 words for each of the prompts below
Essay Questions:
1. When the interrogator recognizes each stress-response state, he or she can take the actions necessary to disarm the four negative responses of anger, depression, denial, and bargaining. Explain this process.
2. Expand on the theory of the positive stress response of acceptance, its characteristics, effects, and results in an interview situation.
3. Take the stress response of DENIAL and give a summary of the main points which are:
- Give the definition
- Supply the characteristics that identify denial, and
- Outline the goals of the interviewer and goals of the subject.
4. Based on the last question, answer these final two phases of dealing with a subject who is in denial (about the crime, his/her part in it, etc. when all the evidence proves guilt):
- Decide the results of an interview when the chief mechanism is denial, and
- Summarize the interrogator/interviewer's response to dealing with a subject in denial and how to achieve a successful outcome.